If you haven’t seen the icebergs yet, do yourself a great big favour: get on a plane and come here right now and bring a camera. It might be another decade or generation before we see anything as good as this again.

There are thousands of shipwrecks around the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador. By one estimate, there are at least 8,000. As the first place in North America reached by Europeans during the age of exploration, the rugged coast here has had centuries to ring up its toll of ships and lives lost.

This boggy landscape of Newfoundland’s northern tip does not seem an auspicious spot for a momentous event in human history. The sullen sky hangs low, and icy Arctic winds send shivers through stunted conifers; the tallest, though a century old, are barely above eye level. Just beyond the trees is the slate-grey Atlantic, from which a group of Greenland Vikings emerged around AD 1000 to establish a settlement.

We are incredibly excited to share with you our brand new Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism TV ad. The newest chapter in our continuing story is entitled ‘Magic’. It celebrates Newfoundland and Labrador – a place of contrasts and wonders; a place that tells you stories and shows you its inner heart.

Gros Morne National Park really comes alive in the dead of winter. If you’re looking for some inspiration for cold-weather adventure in Newfoundland & Labrador's signature wilderness, check out these trip ideas.

My first time on a backcountry snowmobile trek went the way most firsts do: More than a little awkward, a lot of thrills and a lasting sensation that made me wonder “what’ve I been missing all this time.”

For Lawrence Hill, a frequent guest at Writers at Woody Point, it’s partly about the whales that parade by in Bonne Bay. For Michael Winter, it’s about swimming in his birthday suit in the sea or under a waterfall, once at dawn with a musician with whom he had been singing and dancing all night. For Michael Ondaatje, it’s a “wild and swirling event” that breaks down the barriers between performers and the audience.

“Listen,” my sister said, leaning close to my ear munching a crispy chunk of fried cod at the Anchor Café in Port au Choix, Newfoundland, “that’s what fish and chips should sound like.” For someone who’s worked for 36 years at an iconic West Vancouver fish and chippery, that’s a mighty big stamp of approval.

The surge and surface current slosh me around like laundry in a spin cycle. I’m scuba diving on Gadd’s Wall, a precipitous dive site in Bonne Bay, in Western Newfoundland’s Gros Morne National Park, that just may be one of the top dives on the Rock.

Trevor Pilgrim of Mayflower Adventures in Roddickton, NL, believes in giving his guests a hearty breakfast before he takes them out salmon fishing. One of his favourite haunts is Beaver Brook and its world-famous limestone cave, known as the Underground Salmon Pool.

The perfect place to stay for this western Newfoundland golf adventure is the Humber Valley Resort, and perhaps the best golf to be played on this side of the island is the River Course at the resort. The resort offers both an inn and chalets with seasonal rates. The chalets offer options to house large or small groups with all the comforts of a world-class golf destination.

Forget the Rockies. Winter blahs melt away as you hit the gas on a snowmobile and blast along ancient mountain ridges or wander through pristine woodlands in Newfoundland and Labrador.

A vast network of trails sprawls across more than 5,000 kilometres of natural beauty. It spans the former Canadian National Railway route, follows the foothills of the Long Range Mountains to a glacier-cut fjord in Gros Morne National Park, and crisscrosses Labrador's rolling tundra.

When I ask the owner of a very local diner in tiny Port au Choix where the moose came from for the delicious moose burger I’ve just wolfed down, she tells me she hunted it herself. I clearly realize that dining in Newfoundland is not like anyplace else I’ve travelled before.